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Web Engineer at mig33
Posted by Lester Chan at 21:56 in Blog
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I have spent the first quarter of my life studying! 6 years in primary school, 4 years in secondary school, 3 years in Singapore Polytechnic (SP), 2 years and 2 months serving my nation, 3 years 6 months in National University of Singapore (NUS). Finally, it is time for me to step out to the working world and complete the other half of my life.

My last paper ended back on 3rd December 2009, went to Taiwan for my graduate trip from 7th to 13th December 2009 and went to Hong Kong with Li Xiang from 19th to 27th December 2009. Sent out my resumes to OCBC, UOB, SingTel, Matador, CSIT and Crimson Logic for the last 3 months but did not get a reply.

I was recommended by David to Andy who said his company, mig33 Pte Ltd, is looking for a web developer and David asked me to contact Andy personally. So I thought why not give it a try, so I sent my resume to Andy and Andy forwarded it to his bosses. Thanks to Andy for endorsing and putting good words for me, I manage to get an interview last Thursday, 28th January 2010 at 3pm. The interview was pretty technical which I like because it really tests your skills and experience in that area rather than just looking at your CAP or grades and judge everything based on that.

Came back at 4pm and at 5.49pm, I got an email saying that I got the job as a Web Engineer at mig33! I was really over the moon! It is my first full-time job! The feeling is definitely better than striking 4D or ToTo!

It is such a coincidence that mig33 is located at The Central Office 1 building which is just beside my internship company, Sedgwick Richardson, which is located in Office 2 building (they both share the same lobby)

mig33 is the largest mobile chat community, connecting millions of mobile friends all around the world! You can find out more about mig33 at http://mig33.com/.

On the day that I got the job, I posted a blog post entitled All Good Things Must Come To An End on my WordPress blog.

Just in case you miss it, let me paste it down here:

As you all know, I have been doing WordPress plugins and supporting it for the past 6 years. These 6 years of my life, I have been through my polytechnic education, my national service as well as my university education.

I just graduated from university in December 2009 and have been jobless for 2 months. However, things change for the better. I was offered a full-time job and will be starting work this coming Monday on the 1st February 2010.

I regret to say that I am not able to provide support for my plugins anymore due to my full-time job commitment. I will leave my WordPress plugins support forums open and let the community help one another.

However, I will still update my plugins when I can and you still can report bugs to me via email and I will try to fix it.

The comments I have gotten are very positive and I would like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement! You rock WordPress community!


16 Comments16 Comments
Elizabeth's Avatar
Elizabeth
Comment #1
  • 22:19
  • Monday, 1st February 2010

Congratulations! All the best in your career endeavors.

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #2
  • 22:20
  • Monday, 1st February 2010

Thanks Elizabeth!

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Pramodh
Comment #3
  • 00:17
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Hey Chan,
You got to be on it. You did it when you were a student. Your attitude to do more than your contemporaries and then innovate is something probably that mig33 has found out, and took you in. You should really make this part of whatever you are.
Hope you will keep being part of wp.

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Justin
Comment #4
  • 02:27
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Good for you Lester! I don’t know you in real life but I’ve been using your plugins and reading your blog for many years now. You seem like a very good worker so this job seems like a good reward. Have fun in your new job.

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Flick
Comment #5
  • 05:40
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

@Lesterchan: Congratulations again! :) I’m really glad to hear that you’ve found a full time job! One of my good friends who is also very smart was also jobless for a while – none of us understood why – but he, like yourself, has now found a really fantastic full time post, so clearly it was worth the wait, and you clearly impressed mig33 at the technical interview!

I very much hope you’ll continue to post on your Twitter/maintain your blog (and maybe occasionally update the plugins for breakthrough versions of WP – like 3.0 :p) although I fully appreciate why you would now like the community to take over your support role – I think it’s fair to say you’re one of the very select group of WP plugin developers who actually took the time to develop reliable and essential plugins and reply to support requests over *so* many years and versions of WP, and for that I am very thankful.

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #6
  • 08:23
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Thanks Pramodh! I will, I am still keeping track of the development of WordPress via RSS =D

Thanks for sharing the story with me. Yea man, I will continue to blog once a while and be active in Twitter almost everyday! Thanks once again for the kind compliments and the great support =D

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altantic
Comment #7
  • 09:11
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Seems like everyone loves yr plugins and they going to miss it! LOL…

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Kevin Lim
Comment #8
  • 11:32
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Awesome Lester! I’ve been studying much longer than you, but I hope to find a job that’s almost as satisfying as yours. You’re going places! :)

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #9
  • 21:36
  • Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

Kelvin: yea, a little wasted.

Kevin: Thanks for the support =D

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Edgar J.
Comment #10
  • 03:21
  • Tuesday, 9th February 2010

Congratulations, hoe you don’t forget to support the plugins :P .

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #11
  • 08:03
  • Tuesday, 9th February 2010

Edgar: Thanks but I will not be supporting my plugins anymore as I will not have time to do it. I will however try to maintain it =)

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turbin
Comment #12
  • 00:40
  • Wednesday, 10th February 2010

hmm i think i know who u are..hihi…am mig33 user…whatever i meet u in ur web…

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PERVEZ
Comment #13
  • 13:38
  • Wednesday, 10th February 2010

Congratulation Lester !! I am a mig33 users. Hope you will enjoy to work with this community.

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #14
  • 18:01
  • Wednesday, 10th February 2010

Thanks Pervez!

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netster
Comment #15
  • 17:18
  • Wednesday, 24th February 2010 (4 weeks ago)

Congratulation on your new job! Sorry I am kinda late to wish you :)

Happy for you :) I can see you have bought lot of gadget for your working needs :)

Good luck!

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Lester ChanLester Chan
Comment #16
  • 17:24
  • Wednesday, 24th February 2010 (4 weeks ago)

Yea Thanks =D

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